ChatGPT

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ChatGPT is a conversational language model from OpenAI, fine-tuned from a model in the GPT-3.5 series and offered from 30 November 2022 as a free research preview. OpenAI calls it a sibling model to InstructGPT and says it can answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises and reject inappropriate requests. [1] Primary source

Timeline of ChatGPT →

Claims and evidence

  • Released Released as a free research preview. Primary source[1]page date; third paragraph
  • Status Status unknownLaunched as a free research preview; OpenAI publishes no retirement date for the original November 2022 model, which had no API id, and the ChatGPT product has since moved to other models. Evidence incompleteNo source
  • Derived from (fine tune) GPT-3.5OpenAI says ChatGPT is fine-tuned from a model in the GPT-3.5 series, using RLHF with the same methods as InstructGPT. Primary source[1]Methods
  • Change · Other Trained for dialogue: human trainers wrote conversations playing both user and assistant, mixed with the InstructGPT dataset converted to dialogue format.Compared with GPT-3.5 Primary source[1]
  • Change · Availability Offered as a free research preview on the web instead of through the API.Compared with GPT-3.5 Primary source[1]
  • Change · Safety OpenAI says lessons from deploying GPT-3 and Codex informed its safety mitigations, including reductions in harmful and untruthful outputs through RLHF.Compared with GPT-3.5 Primary source[1]
  • Parameters Not disclosedNot disclosed by OpenAI. No claim madeNo source
  • Access consumer appFree web research preview at launch. Primary source[1]third paragraph

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  • GPT-3.5 · 15 March 2022 · derived (fine tune)

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